Bachelor's degree

In Cardiff

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cardiff (Wales)

Choosing Music at Cardiff means you will become engaged in a vibrant musical community. You will be taught in a research environment and benefit from interaction with staff who are working at the frontiers of knowledge in their areas of expertise. Our undergraduate programmes are flexible and challenging, allowing you to specialise and develop your own musical interests whilst acquiring a solid, broad-based education in aesthetics, analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, music history and performance.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Cardiff
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Cyncoed Campus, Cyncoed Rd, CF23 6XD

Start date

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Music
  • Composition
  • Musical
  • Performance

Course programme

Course Content Year One
  • The Full Works (t)
  • Composition 1a
  • Ethnomusicology I: Music in Human Life
  • Practical Musicianship 1*
  • Repertoire Studies*(t)
  • A History of Popular Music
  • Elements of Tonal Music I* (t)
  • The History of Musical Instruments
  • Elements of Tonal Music II* (t)
  • Composition 1b
  • Fundamental Acoustics

* = Compulsory for BMus
(t) = taught in small groups

Year Two
  • Composition II
  • Harmonic Practice 1750-1900
  • Orchestration I
  • Russian Music up to 1914
  • Analysing 20th Century Music
  • Music and Idea: from Enlightenment to Romanticism
  • Performance Practice
  • Formal Functions in the Classical Tradition*
  • Studio Techniques I: MIDI and Synthesiser
  • French Music and National Identity 1848-1902
  • Orchestration II
  • British Music in the 20th Century
  • Opera from Handel to Weber
  • Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
  • Jazz in the Modern World
  • Ethnomusicology II Music in Cross-Culture Perspective
  • Issues in Popular Music
  • Practical Musicianship II
  • Contrapuntal Practice 1750-1900

* = Compulsory for BMus

Year Three (Final Year)
  • Composition III (1-1)
  • Recital (1-1)
  • Dissertation (1-1)
  • Project in Music Analysis (1-1)
  • Project in Ethnomusicology (1-1)
  • Practical Musicianship III (Ensemble)
  • Practical Musicianship IV (Performance)
  • Composition IV
  • The Birth of Modernism
  • Nineteenth Century Italian Opera
  • The Romantic Opera and the New German School
  • Studio Techniques II: Audio and Hard Disk Recording
  • 20th Century Contrapuntal Practice
  • The Birth of Modernism
  • Innovation and Tradition in French Music
  • Idea of Absolute Music
  • Wagner and Romantic Opera
  • Notation and Editing of Early Music

1-1 = one-to-one teaching

Bachelor Music

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